COLUMBIA, MD — Marley Welsh, vice president of Lee & Associates | Maryland has earned her Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS (SIOR) designation and is now a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia and Northern Virginia Chapter. The SIOR designation represents a professional achievement for highly-qualified commercial real estate practitioners with a strong and sustained transactional history in brokerage, fee-based services or executive management. Of the nearly 3700 worldwide members, only 215 - or less than 6% - are women.
SIOR members work in the industrial and office sector of real estate, functioning in leasing and sales management, executive management and advisory services functions.
Welsh has been associated with Lee & Associates since 2013, has more than 10 years of diversified commercial real estate experience and was promoted to vice president in January 2021. In her role she works with tenants, landlords, investment entities and institutional owners of commercial real estate to provide timely solutions for their real estate requirements. Welsh focuses primarily on flex/office and Industrial properties throughout the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. metropolitan region and her clients includes both local and national tenants and owners.
“Commercial real estate professionals must earn their way into SIOR membership based on factors including transactional history and the demonstration of sustained professional ethics, which makes SIOR markedly different from other real estate organizations,” said Kate Jordan, also an SIOR and currently president of the Maryland, District of Columbia and Northern Virginia Chapter. Jordan is the third female to hold this distinction for the local SIOR Chapter and, nationally, there are currently only three women presidents among the 48 chapters.
“Marley has been my partner since joining Lee & Associates and she is universally respected for her extremely strong work ethic, integrity and professionalism. She has done a tremendous job of establishing and strengthening business relationships throughout the real estate and business community and this has been reflected in her consistently high productivity and volume,” Jordan added.
Last year, the Kate Jordan-Marley Welsh team executed nearly 110 commercial real estate transactions with a volume of nearly $53 million. This includes more than one million square of space sold or leased and more than 3.2 million square of space represented.
Prior to joining Lee & Associates, Welsh worked as a senior marketing professional for Cushman & Wakefield of Maryland. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from Rutgers University.
“When a company chooses to initiate a business relationship with a SIOR-designated professional, they can be assured that they are working with an expert with the highest integrity and a strong track record of success. Part of my mission as SIOR president is to attract additional women into the commercial real estate industry, which begins by educating young people about the profession and illustrating the success of Marley and our other peers. The number of women working in commercial real estate leasing and sales positions - as well as construction management - has increased in recent years, but there is still more work to be accomplished. I have loved every minute of my commercial real estate career and it is both rewarding and challenging on a daily basis,” Jordan said.
In anticipation of continued transactional volume, Jordan and Welsh are currently recruiting for a junior brokerage professional to join the Lee & Associates team.
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